Special Notice
This year commemorates the 75th Anniversary of Title
V of the Social Security Act. In recognition of this anniversary,
we will periodically feature resources from our Historical
Collection. This month's featured resource is Infant Care
(1935 edition). This booklet for parents was first published
by the Children's Bureau in 1914 and was updated numerous
times through its final edition in 1989. The 1935 edition
includes a chapter on teeth. The booklet is available
online.
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Dental Coverage for Children Under Pennsylvania Medical
Assistance
This report describes dental coverage for children in Pennsylvania's Medicaid
program, including eligibility requirements, covered services, delivery of
care, expenditures, and access to and quality of services. Additional topics
include state initiatives to increase the number of providers who deliver oral
health services to children enrollred in Medicaid.
Costlow MR, Lave JR. 2010. Pittsburgh, PA: Pennsylvania
Medicaid Policy Center. 16 pp. The report is available
online.
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Improving Access to Perinatal Oral Health Care: Strategies
and Considerations for Health Plans
This issue brief explores how oral health practices
and use of oral health care among pregnant women may affect
a woman's overall health, her birth outcome, and the oral
health of her children. It presents guidelines and statements
developed by professional organizations and states on oral health care for
pregnant women to prevent dental caries and periodontal disease, appropriate
treatment, and the costs of untreated disease. It also explains how the client,
physician, work force, and financial barriers limit the use of perinatal oral
health care, and it concludes with a discussion of opportunities for health
plans to play a role in removing these barriers to ensure that all pregnant
women have access to needed care. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health
Bureau]
Buerlein J, Peabody H, Santoro K. 2010. Washington,
DC: Children's Dental Health Project and National Institute
for Health Care Management Foundation. The brief is available
online.
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The Challenge to Delivering Oral Health Services in
Rural America
This journal article identifies challenges to improving the oral health of rural
populations and describes work force and service delivery solutions for oral
health care in rural America. Descriptions of oral-health-improvement programs
are provided, accompanied by examples in rural areas. Examples include involving
individual and population-based health interventions, offering behavioral health
services for adults, training more health professionals to work in rural areas,
increasing the flexibility and capacity of the oral health work force, and
overcoming distance barriers. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]
Skillman SM, Doescher MP, Mouradian WE, Brunson DK. 2010.
Journal of Public Health Dentistry 70(s1):S49-S57. The
abstract is available online.
Readers:
The June 2010 special of issue of the Journal of Public
Health Dentistry focuses on efforts to improve oral health
care delivery systems through work force innovations.
The special issue is available online.
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Medicaid Reforms in Oregon and Suboptimal Utilization
of Dental Care by Women of Childbearing Age
This journal article explores patterns of oral health service use among women
of childbearing age who were enrolled in Medicaid in Oregon in the early 2000s,
a period during which health care coverage was expanded. The authors found
that the use of oral health care, particularly preventive and restorative care,
by pregnant women and mothers was low and decreased across time. [Funded in
part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]
Milgrom P, Lee RS-Y, Huebner CE, Conrad DA. 2010. Journal
of the American Dental Association 141(6):688-695. The abstract
is available online.
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